It doesn&#39;t seem odd to me.<br><br>Consider an HTML page with that &quot;sentence&quot; displayed on it. If you ask the viewer of the page how many words are in the sentence, then surely you will get the answer 3?<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 28 March 2011 16:55, malcolm.wallace <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:malcolm.wallace@me.com">malcolm.wallace@me.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div>Does anyone else think it odd that Prelude.words will break a string at a non-breaking space?</div><div><br></div><div>Prelude&gt; words &quot;abc def\xA0ghi&quot;</div><div>[&quot;abc&quot;,&quot;def&quot;,&quot;ghi&quot;]</div>
<div><br></div><div>I would have expected this to be the obvious behaviour: </div><div><br></div><div>Prelude&gt; words &quot;abc def\xA0ghi&quot;</div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="white-space: normal;">[&quot;abc&quot;,&quot;def\160ghi&quot;]</span></span></div>
<div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="white-space: normal;"></span>Regards,</span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">    Malcolm</span></div>
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